TOWARDS HOUSING POLICIES THAT CONSIDER HOUSEHOLD’S PREFERENCES: ESTIMATING THE DEMAND FOR HOUSING ATTRIBUTES IN CHILE

Estimating Equilibrium Housing Demand for "Stayers"

This study models demand by owner-occupied housing ‘‘stayers.’’ Most consumers do not move routinely in response to small changes in income or housing price, so the ‘‘own rent’’ and ‘‘move stay’’ decisions are modeled as multiperiod optimization in the presence of transaction costs. The empirical section uses the ‘‘American Housing Survey’’ to provide a panel of household stayers for a metropol...

Estimating Ethnic Preferences Using Ethnic Housing Quotas in Singapore

There are many policies around the world aimed at integrating groups (gender, ethnic, national) in education, employment, immigration and housing. In the case of housing, since prices may not internalize externalities in residential location choices, we need to know preferences for welfare analysis. This paper estimates people’s taste for living with own ethnic groups (ethnic preferences) using...

Housing aspirations of Australian households

THE HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY Memorandum for the Housing Authority Profile of Households in Public Housing PURPOSE

Modeling Housing Demand for New Residential Buildings in Urban Areas

T his study investigates the factors affecting the demand for new residential buildings in urban areas of Iran during 1976-2010. The demand function for new residential buildings in urban areas was estimated and then the existence of a long-run relationship among variables of this function was studied using the Bounds testing of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Co-integration procedure. The t...